Animation Director

13 hours ago

Wellington City, New Zealand Aurora44 Full time

The Animation Director is responsible for the quality of the animation, for keeping it on brief and for delivering consistent performances by assigning or casting the appropriate animators. Ensures that the creative desires and production requirements are met.

Main Tasks:

- Implement the specific animation pipeline requirements of a particular project.
- Test and deploy tools in a high-pressure production environment.
- Review animation passes from internal and external teams, directing them to ensure the quality of animation is maintained throughout the production.
- approve all character and facial rigs to make sure that character is to a high enough standard for the production to work with.
- Runs animation dailies, ensures animation quality control and ensuring performance consistency.
- Interpret the Game director’s needs and provide constructive feedback to the team.
- Work in partnership with Production to correctly cast shots to animators and ensure continuity of performance while meeting all schedules and highest standards.
- Work closely with the Rigging Department to ensure the delivery of Rigs that will meet an animator’s need for control, functionality, usability and performance.
- Document and manage research, disseminate all show workflows and performance references to the animation team to ensure consistency.
- Work closely with the Art Director to ensure primary animation and secondary animation (cloth, hair, wardrobe etc.) are delivered to the highest standards.
- Work closely with Production, providing performance feedback, mentoring and maintaining positive moral among the team.
- Responsible for hitting animation targets according to the schedule with support from production to do so.
- Responsible for clear lines of communication between, animation team, other departments and production.
- Fulfil other duties as required by management and other department personnel as requested/required

Skills Required:

- Bachelor’s degree in animation, game design or equivalent.
- Minimum 5+ years’ experience in video game design and production.
- Must have shipped 1 or more AAA console game(s).
- Excellent aesthetic judgments - keen understanding of composition, cinematic design and working to live action constraints and performances.
- Excellent spatial awareness and a feel for movement and timing. With a keen eye for Weight, Balance, understanding of animation principles and aesthetics in motion.
- Excellent performance judgments, Can give constructive feedback that enhances choreography and the performance.

A44 Games is a world leading video game developer based in Wellington, New Zealand. Founded in 2013, our studio has grown from a small indie studio into a burgeoning AAA game studio.

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